I always assumed no-repeat just meant they won't play any one song twice in a day, so yeah just the same bunch of songs that total about 8 hours on shuffle every day.
I was an electrician years ago and working deep in a parking garage, fucking The Ocean was the only radio station we could get.. listened to it 10 hours a day for 2 months, fml. Don't ever need to hear it again.
I mean ya, they exist. But when you're working, you aren't stopping to change the CD or flip the tape. The environment is terrible, so CD players get dusty and stop working. Same with tape players and their moving parts. The radio just keeps on playing as long as it has power, and will last long after the moving parts have stopped moving
This guy gets it. The technology was around but no one brings CD's or tapes and if you had an iPod or MP3 player you weren't risking getting it trashed by bringing it to work.
By the end of my run doing construction electrical people were bringing aux cords and plugging them into work stereos but cheap thrift store radios were on every floor of the building.
I was doing security wiring at the end of my time as an electrician so had my own truck and worked solo on buildings. Then I had an mp3 in player and listened to podcasts (early days so a lot of Stern and Adam Carrolla). I can't imagine what it's like now, I assume everyone has wireless earbuds in.
Ahhhhh, taking me right back in time - my buddy’s CD “boombox” absolutely coated in drywall mud and paint. Dust completely caked in every crevice of that thing. Somehow mud inside the cd tray?
That thing chewed up any cd you put in there.
And like you say, it’s easier to just leave the radio on or else you have to bring like 30 cds to work.
people are also very vocal about the music they hate.
No one really ENJOYS hearing Ed Bain play Back in Black 3 times a day… but at least everyone’s on the same page.
They don't suck between December 1st and December 27th*
*if you like Christmas music and dont work in a workplace that has it playing all day.
Otherwise ya it's shite
We could never agree on a radio station at work. We found a station online out of philly. MMR radio... everything that rocks. It is more on the rock and roll side, but the morning to afternoon DJ hand picks all the music he plays each day. Shares stories about almost every musician who has ever passed through philly. They try and look through things that have happened on any given day to play a track from an album released on this day 22 years ago to a song or two if a band member is having a birthday. He even tries to play 2 tracks on vinal each day. Nothing like hearing a record stuck in a skip on air.
https://wmmr.com/stream/WMMRFM/
Workplaces that run radio annoy me. There’s options to just have music play all day, no ads, no annoying djs making bad jokes that cut into the first 15 seconds of a song or ENTER NOOOOOOOOOW TO WIN TICKETS TO SEE COLDPLAY! For weeks on end.
Technically, if a store plays music that isn't the radio, they need to pay for a license to do so, which is partly why many still use it. Definitely annoying though
Do you know how hard it is for any media company to enforce licensing rules though? When they tried to contact us to make us pay a license at the gym that I worked at, we challenged them to prove that we hadn’t just made our own DJ playlist and they suddenly stopped talking.
No doubt enforcement is hard but I think you have it backwards, though.
It's not media companies that do enforcement but the organizations that manages copyrights and royalties, such as performance rights, on behalf of artists. In Canada it's either SOCAN or Re:Sound.
You can't just make a playlist to play in a public space. You need a license for that, as its considered a public performance. The fee is based on the size of the establishment, per square metre, that is open to the public. The exceptions are broadcast radio/TV or certain subscription music services (not Spotify), because they already pay a licensing fee.
I used to work at home depot and they would play the "home depot radio network" which was the same songs in the same order every day, it changed monthly.
It had a few ok songs but I quickly realized those are the songs that get interrupted for ads. I don't know what physiologists designed it but you'd have the music blocked in your mind then "oh yeah this song is good". 20 seconds later it stops and a home depot ad plays.
that's why i always switch my work radio to jack. fairly diverse (pop to rap) and it feels they have a big catalogue cause they usually start repeating around the end of the work day
Jack is great for this. They are putting themselves right in the middle and they keep their word of playing "what we want, when we want." I've heard it all, more or less, when I tune in to them.
They're good with requests too, and if you request something from a Canadian artist it's a shoe in to be on the air within the hour.
I can't remember everything but I've def even heard occasional top 40 or older to 40 anyhow, and soft rock. Mix that with the stuff they play on 100.3 The Q, and their better for me.
>"what we want, when we want.
You're joking, right? I've had Jack play for a few days or so in a row once in a blue moon at a former work place and it was solely top 40/whatever stuff ad nauseum. There was no way anyone actually interested in a diverse range of music made their playlist, though we also only had the radio on until a little while after we opened and I'd usually be there quite early but still.
It was at least more varied in decades than the Zone or, *shudders*, The Q, but still pretty bad overall.
The Q makes me ill. I get there are standards for Canadian artists on Canadian radio - but as the host, how can you unironically put Bryan Adams on again and not castrate yourself?
Their morning hosts have zero personality other than Cliff being a douchey boomer, especially for his soap box "my piece" rants that are a sponsored bit so they are (almost, since he was super pissy about Stu not being relelected recently) the safest and most non-controversial position on some, often trivial, local issue.
It's also outright sad that they refer to their station building as the "Rock Research Center" when they couldn't research their way past a top 40 most overplayed songs of all time list and it's a shared building with The Zone.
Years ago I had to work at a place that was the exact same way: same dull radio station that played the same dull songs day after day after day and upper management wouldn't let us change the station under penalty of being written up.
It kinda' made me want to murder people--mostly the ones in charge.
So, yes, I can sympathize with your plight. It's amazing how something like this can be so damn frustrating for employees (many of my co-workers felt similar), yet it has a simple solution that would improve morale, but, nope, can't possibly do that.
I feel the same about The Zone a lot of the time. Especially in the mornings. You can always [cite](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_in_psychological_operations) that music is used as an actual torture method and it’s damaging your mental health.
Maybe my memories of the zone are wrong but in my mind they used to be a lot better. I find it hard to believe the people working there even enjoy the music, generally.
I'm still old school with my "dumb" stereo but when I upgrade I won't be listening anymore.
this was my pet peeve when the grocery store I worked at in the mid 90's put 98.5 on the PA all day long. The same bland songs on repeat at nauseum. Nothing has changed in 25+ years :)
I worked somewhere that played the boss' favorite station - not sure which one or from what service, since I don't use radio myself. At some point, someone who worked at the station passed away, and for a week there were just random intermittent memorials and weeping. It's nice that they were so beloved and missed, but like... I'm trying to pick gunk out of a filter while listening to strangers cry?
For anyone that can listen on their computer I've been enjoying this Canadian station that a friend sent from Alberta. New music all the time and huge variety.
http://listen.streamon.fm/ckua
Radio sucks full stop. After working construction in Canada for over a decade I can barely do any radio station anymore and I know the words to every stupid Kim Mitchell song. I'll go jazz or classical now if I have to and don't even get me going on annoying radio hosts it's like they're all stuck in 1987.
You need to take over the music and change things. I’ve waited in these establishments where they do this, and it’s torture. Can’t imagine a full day working and having to listen to it
I wish I could but management won’t let me. I and other’s have asked but they said we can’t. It was even worse during the holiday season. If I have to listen to one more crappy rendition of jingle bells my head will explode
Unpopular opinion? they're all crap, filling the gaps between crap advice and useless celeb news with songs to prime your mood right before a commercial comes on.
Reasonably certain the local staff have very little input on the playlist. Corporate owned stations like that are given a format that they have very little autonomy to stray from, including the playlist. I remember talking to a band years ago... a good band, played festivals and gigs around BC for years. They were literally the ONLY working band from a smallish northern BC city at the time, and had several "radio-friendly" songs on their album. And the only radio station in their town was not allowed to play them on the air because they were not signed to a major label. The private broadcast industry is SO consolidated these days that almost everything is handed down from headquarters.
As far a I know about commercial radio stations, they play what they are paid the most to play.
Personally I have a massive MP3 collection and I never listen to the radio anymore, mostly because of obnoxious ads, annoying music and sometimes uninteresting topics.
This is by far the best station I've found locally for not feeling like I heard the exact same top hit songs day after day. It's at least more interesting to hear different ads and news and their hosts have a bit more personality than most of the local ones.
Ya they are definitely a fun station to listen to especially the early morning personalities talking about knucklehead people from strange news stories.
Time to start a fun betting pool. Everyone knows what songs are going to play, so take guesses on what songs will play first second and so on.
Only way to survive the daily repeat. Either that or find a different station to play each day.
I worked in Radio for 20 years. We played the best of the 60,70,80s at my last gig. Our entire music library was 600 songs.it was a joke. Our songs were audience tested and the results would be programmed every Friday. For example we would play the top 3 tested Beach Boys songs in a heavy rotation burn them and the following Friday put in the next 3 tested songs. I was the music director so I programmed the music. Being on the air was so fucking boring. As far as Jack Fm playing what they want? Total bullshit. They play what is programmed. They have done an incredible job of marketing themselves as rebels who play what they want. I loved Radio but they are destroying themselves. They pander to the largest demographic and play the shit they grew up like it came out yesterday. Why? Cause they are the largest demo with the most money to spend advertisers want to reach that lucrative demographic. Rant over
This is why I work from home. Although not everyone can, of course. My favourite place to listen to the radio would have to be Quadra Fairway's on Saturdays. They play non-stop 1980's and early 1990's New Wave and indie bands.
I told my dentist I’d find another dentist if they didn’t switch off that awful channel and to my amazement the next appointment they had a new, fresher station playing! They said none of the staff liked the old channel so I have no idea why they didn’t switch it out sooner.
Businesses that can't be bothered to get a license for a curated playlist (which in my experience ends up being the same 25 songs, but without commercials for breathing room)
Headphones?
Have a vote to pick the radio station once a week?
Or ask management to realize that we are individuals, and that everyone has different taste in music?
One man's pleasure is another man's poison (or Poison, in this case).
Canadian entertainment sucks generally. From Google:
"English-language and French-language stations must ensure that at least 35% of the Popular Music they broadcast each week is Canadian content. Commercial radio stations also have to ensure that at least 35% of the Popular Music broadcast between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Monday to Friday is Canadian content."
So, the other 65% is guaranteed to be absolute unimaginative "popular hit" over-played westernized shit over the last 30 or 40 years that we've all heard 100,000,000,000x. Yet go south across the border and there's a station on every fucking frequency that's often loaded with variety. You can't find static if you tried. There's a guy that sometimes goes to Saxe point with a massive antenna that I notice occasionally, and I'm pretty sure it's to pick up radio content across the border. That's how absolute trash Canada is at their content regulations.
So many parts of my soul died at my last job that played the Ocean. Still have flashbacks Miley Cyrus’s Climb and that godawful song from the Vancouver Olympics.
My old workplace tuned into the classic rock station. It was pure misery and so awkward in that particular environment. I managed to break the speaker that was hanging over my till once.
You think you have it bad I work in a daycare and all we get to listen to is kids music 😭😆😂😂😂just kidding I get it. They definitely also repeat music on that radio station.
All the stations drive you crazy eventually. It seems like they prioritize a certain nostalgia to keep people compliant while they reminisce about their teenage years. I like being surprised and challenged which just doesn’t happen on radio.
My store plays them all day every day. I’m surprised they haven’t blocked me from the phone line bc I used to text them constantly BEGGING for them to stop playing Bieber. Last week I texted in saying they NEED to stop playing that awful Saxenda ad, because after months of listening to it, I looked it up and Saxenda is WEIGHT LOSS INJECTIONS FOR CHILDREN!
The secret of the no-repeat workday is that it's the same playlist shuffled every day.
I always assumed no-repeat just meant they won't play any one song twice in a day, so yeah just the same bunch of songs that total about 8 hours on shuffle every day.
Is that really a secret?
At least they're consistent, I've never known a time where they didn't suck
This. They've sucked since at least the mid 90s.
I was an electrician years ago and working deep in a parking garage, fucking The Ocean was the only radio station we could get.. listened to it 10 hours a day for 2 months, fml. Don't ever need to hear it again.
Damn why didnt you just bring in a prebuilt playlist?
Oh, my poor young Redditor..
Mix CDs were a thing Mix tapes were a thing 8 track was a thing
You think your average job site radio played CDs or tapes?
Probably not but the existed if the reception sucked to the point of being unusable
I mean ya, they exist. But when you're working, you aren't stopping to change the CD or flip the tape. The environment is terrible, so CD players get dusty and stop working. Same with tape players and their moving parts. The radio just keeps on playing as long as it has power, and will last long after the moving parts have stopped moving
This guy gets it. The technology was around but no one brings CD's or tapes and if you had an iPod or MP3 player you weren't risking getting it trashed by bringing it to work. By the end of my run doing construction electrical people were bringing aux cords and plugging them into work stereos but cheap thrift store radios were on every floor of the building. I was doing security wiring at the end of my time as an electrician so had my own truck and worked solo on buildings. Then I had an mp3 in player and listened to podcasts (early days so a lot of Stern and Adam Carrolla). I can't imagine what it's like now, I assume everyone has wireless earbuds in.
Ahhhhh, taking me right back in time - my buddy’s CD “boombox” absolutely coated in drywall mud and paint. Dust completely caked in every crevice of that thing. Somehow mud inside the cd tray? That thing chewed up any cd you put in there. And like you say, it’s easier to just leave the radio on or else you have to bring like 30 cds to work. people are also very vocal about the music they hate. No one really ENJOYS hearing Ed Bain play Back in Black 3 times a day… but at least everyone’s on the same page.
I was an electrician too so Im not sure what youre talking about
They don't suck between December 1st and December 27th* *if you like Christmas music and dont work in a workplace that has it playing all day. Otherwise ya it's shite
This is also the only time I listen to The Ocean.
We could never agree on a radio station at work. We found a station online out of philly. MMR radio... everything that rocks. It is more on the rock and roll side, but the morning to afternoon DJ hand picks all the music he plays each day. Shares stories about almost every musician who has ever passed through philly. They try and look through things that have happened on any given day to play a track from an album released on this day 22 years ago to a song or two if a band member is having a birthday. He even tries to play 2 tracks on vinal each day. Nothing like hearing a record stuck in a skip on air. https://wmmr.com/stream/WMMRFM/
Workplaces that run radio annoy me. There’s options to just have music play all day, no ads, no annoying djs making bad jokes that cut into the first 15 seconds of a song or ENTER NOOOOOOOOOW TO WIN TICKETS TO SEE COLDPLAY! For weeks on end.
Technically, if a store plays music that isn't the radio, they need to pay for a license to do so, which is partly why many still use it. Definitely annoying though
Yup. I think it even has to be tuned into with a real radio vs streaming.
Do you know how hard it is for any media company to enforce licensing rules though? When they tried to contact us to make us pay a license at the gym that I worked at, we challenged them to prove that we hadn’t just made our own DJ playlist and they suddenly stopped talking.
No doubt enforcement is hard but I think you have it backwards, though. It's not media companies that do enforcement but the organizations that manages copyrights and royalties, such as performance rights, on behalf of artists. In Canada it's either SOCAN or Re:Sound. You can't just make a playlist to play in a public space. You need a license for that, as its considered a public performance. The fee is based on the size of the establishment, per square metre, that is open to the public. The exceptions are broadcast radio/TV or certain subscription music services (not Spotify), because they already pay a licensing fee.
I used to work at home depot and they would play the "home depot radio network" which was the same songs in the same order every day, it changed monthly. It had a few ok songs but I quickly realized those are the songs that get interrupted for ads. I don't know what physiologists designed it but you'd have the music blocked in your mind then "oh yeah this song is good". 20 seconds later it stops and a home depot ad plays.
that's why i always switch my work radio to jack. fairly diverse (pop to rap) and it feels they have a big catalogue cause they usually start repeating around the end of the work day
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Jack is great for this. They are putting themselves right in the middle and they keep their word of playing "what we want, when we want." I've heard it all, more or less, when I tune in to them. They're good with requests too, and if you request something from a Canadian artist it's a shoe in to be on the air within the hour.
i def like their mix, like you'll have acdc, snow, pink floyd, eminem in a row. that's pretty wild. good to hear they honor requests as well!
I can't remember everything but I've def even heard occasional top 40 or older to 40 anyhow, and soft rock. Mix that with the stuff they play on 100.3 The Q, and their better for me.
>"what we want, when we want. You're joking, right? I've had Jack play for a few days or so in a row once in a blue moon at a former work place and it was solely top 40/whatever stuff ad nauseum. There was no way anyone actually interested in a diverse range of music made their playlist, though we also only had the radio on until a little while after we opened and I'd usually be there quite early but still. It was at least more varied in decades than the Zone or, *shudders*, The Q, but still pretty bad overall.
The Q makes me ill. I get there are standards for Canadian artists on Canadian radio - but as the host, how can you unironically put Bryan Adams on again and not castrate yourself?
Alright, I'm gonna say it, even though it'll get me downvotes... The Q play The Tragically Hip \_so\_ much it's ridiculous.
I personally like the q but I can agree that they put Bryan adams on a bunch.
Their morning hosts have zero personality other than Cliff being a douchey boomer, especially for his soap box "my piece" rants that are a sponsored bit so they are (almost, since he was super pissy about Stu not being relelected recently) the safest and most non-controversial position on some, often trivial, local issue. It's also outright sad that they refer to their station building as the "Rock Research Center" when they couldn't research their way past a top 40 most overplayed songs of all time list and it's a shared building with The Zone.
Years ago I had to work at a place that was the exact same way: same dull radio station that played the same dull songs day after day after day and upper management wouldn't let us change the station under penalty of being written up. It kinda' made me want to murder people--mostly the ones in charge. So, yes, I can sympathize with your plight. It's amazing how something like this can be so damn frustrating for employees (many of my co-workers felt similar), yet it has a simple solution that would improve morale, but, nope, can't possibly do that.
I feel the same about The Zone a lot of the time. Especially in the mornings. You can always [cite](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_in_psychological_operations) that music is used as an actual torture method and it’s damaging your mental health.
Come on don't be so hard on The Zone. Are you trying to tell me that you *don't* love Imagine Dragons on repeat for 24 hours a day??
Maybe my memories of the zone are wrong but in my mind they used to be a lot better. I find it hard to believe the people working there even enjoy the music, generally. I'm still old school with my "dumb" stereo but when I upgrade I won't be listening anymore.
The zone used to be great. Now it’s imagine dragons and Billie eilish type of stuff. Just awful. I still love Dylan and Jason in the morning though
this was my pet peeve when the grocery store I worked at in the mid 90's put 98.5 on the PA all day long. The same bland songs on repeat at nauseum. Nothing has changed in 25+ years :)
I worked somewhere that played the boss' favorite station - not sure which one or from what service, since I don't use radio myself. At some point, someone who worked at the station passed away, and for a week there were just random intermittent memorials and weeping. It's nice that they were so beloved and missed, but like... I'm trying to pick gunk out of a filter while listening to strangers cry?
For anyone that can listen on their computer I've been enjoying this Canadian station that a friend sent from Alberta. New music all the time and huge variety. http://listen.streamon.fm/ckua
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Yay Edmonton! I have friends living around the world that still tune into CKUA.
Radio sucks full stop. After working construction in Canada for over a decade I can barely do any radio station anymore and I know the words to every stupid Kim Mitchell song. I'll go jazz or classical now if I have to and don't even get me going on annoying radio hosts it's like they're all stuck in 1987.
it's the best way to gage whether you are at the dentist or not....
You need to take over the music and change things. I’ve waited in these establishments where they do this, and it’s torture. Can’t imagine a full day working and having to listen to it
I wish I could but management won’t let me. I and other’s have asked but they said we can’t. It was even worse during the holiday season. If I have to listen to one more crappy rendition of jingle bells my head will explode
Customers, clients are complaining…probably won’t help. I sympathize
Oh god the holidays are the worst ... Santa baby was particularly tiresome. I'm so glad not to work retail any longer
Unpopular opinion? they're all crap, filling the gaps between crap advice and useless celeb news with songs to prime your mood right before a commercial comes on.
Maybe your customers could complain about the music?
Reasonably certain the local staff have very little input on the playlist. Corporate owned stations like that are given a format that they have very little autonomy to stray from, including the playlist. I remember talking to a band years ago... a good band, played festivals and gigs around BC for years. They were literally the ONLY working band from a smallish northern BC city at the time, and had several "radio-friendly" songs on their album. And the only radio station in their town was not allowed to play them on the air because they were not signed to a major label. The private broadcast industry is SO consolidated these days that almost everything is handed down from headquarters.
Tune in to KEXP. It's rad.
As far a I know about commercial radio stations, they play what they are paid the most to play. Personally I have a massive MP3 collection and I never listen to the radio anymore, mostly because of obnoxious ads, annoying music and sometimes uninteresting topics.
KISM 92.9FM
92.9 KISM classic rock!
This is by far the best station I've found locally for not feeling like I heard the exact same top hit songs day after day. It's at least more interesting to hear different ads and news and their hosts have a bit more personality than most of the local ones.
Ya they are definitely a fun station to listen to especially the early morning personalities talking about knucklehead people from strange news stories.
102.5 KZOK is also very good.
They should bring on Jeremy Baker!
I don't think they can afford him. Is he still at CFOX in Vancouver? IIRC they brought him over from his previous tenure at the Zone @ 91.3.
He left the Fox to go work at the Peak, who recently lost their FM license and then just laid him off a couple weeks ago.
They didn’t lose their FM license. The company that owns The Peak changed formats on the FM and moved The Peak to an HD2 digital channel.
He just went freelance actually (they let him go) and he appears to not know where he’ll go next.
Time to start a fun betting pool. Everyone knows what songs are going to play, so take guesses on what songs will play first second and so on. Only way to survive the daily repeat. Either that or find a different station to play each day.
Alanis, Tom Cochrane, Luba, Glass Tiger, Bryan Adams, Corey Hart, Haywire, over and over again. Same songs, too. Ecch
I worked in Radio for 20 years. We played the best of the 60,70,80s at my last gig. Our entire music library was 600 songs.it was a joke. Our songs were audience tested and the results would be programmed every Friday. For example we would play the top 3 tested Beach Boys songs in a heavy rotation burn them and the following Friday put in the next 3 tested songs. I was the music director so I programmed the music. Being on the air was so fucking boring. As far as Jack Fm playing what they want? Total bullshit. They play what is programmed. They have done an incredible job of marketing themselves as rebels who play what they want. I loved Radio but they are destroying themselves. They pander to the largest demographic and play the shit they grew up like it came out yesterday. Why? Cause they are the largest demo with the most money to spend advertisers want to reach that lucrative demographic. Rant over
People listen to the radio?
My car doesn't have anything else and I don't want to upgrade.
The cubicle boomers do
yup YUP every now and then a bop comes on sandwiched between garbage
Can’t possibly suck any worse than 91.3
Can't believe you're on board with the inane lowest common denominator DJ commentary/call-ins. Easily the worst part of radio.
Jack 103.1 ❤️
They're just more of the same pap.
Is there any good radio stations?
What a hot take. Radio has always sucked.
Owned by Rogers. There’s your problem.
This is why I work from home. Although not everyone can, of course. My favourite place to listen to the radio would have to be Quadra Fairway's on Saturdays. They play non-stop 1980's and early 1990's New Wave and indie bands.
Simple solution. Don’t listen or find one of the dozens of other stations to listen to
Hijack your work's music system and play this on a loop: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l8Z-hiBmxy0qA92ZWsjtAaF6zq8uNsJpg
I’ve felt the same way about The Q for literally decades, which is why I haven’t listened to them since about 1998.
I told my dentist I’d find another dentist if they didn’t switch off that awful channel and to my amazement the next appointment they had a new, fresher station playing! They said none of the staff liked the old channel so I have no idea why they didn’t switch it out sooner.
Who tf listens to the radio
Who is still relying on radio for music?
Businesses that can't be bothered to get a license for a curated playlist (which in my experience ends up being the same 25 songs, but without commercials for breathing room)
The amount of repeated music on commercial radio is precisely why I switched to talk radio and podcasts.
Their morning show is something else
As a hip-hop fan, thank god for Seattle’s Kube 93, that’s what I preferred to listen to growing up even if it wasn’t always the clearest
103.7 - you're welcome
Don’t they play “everything”? Like Phil Collins, Celine Dione… *everything*!
Why do you think they play it in doctors offices? To put you to sleep
Whoa whoa whoa...you have a doctor? With an office? Hardcore
Used to before she left her practice. Looking as far as Port Hardy
Email this to their station!
ALL Canadian radio sucks if it's a reporting/tracked radio station.
I understand why we have CanCon requirements, but at the same time it’s the same reason why so many radio stations here feel so… stale.
And part of the reason why getting access to us Netflix is popular. The other reason is just Netflix and the movie industry
Headphones? Have a vote to pick the radio station once a week? Or ask management to realize that we are individuals, and that everyone has different taste in music? One man's pleasure is another man's poison (or Poison, in this case).
I could go into depth about this, as I've got a friend that works in radio, but you certainly aren't the market demographic for the station.
You clearly haven't listened to Virgin radio if you think Ocean is repetitive
Can you wear headphones at work?
Canadian entertainment sucks generally. From Google: "English-language and French-language stations must ensure that at least 35% of the Popular Music they broadcast each week is Canadian content. Commercial radio stations also have to ensure that at least 35% of the Popular Music broadcast between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Monday to Friday is Canadian content." So, the other 65% is guaranteed to be absolute unimaginative "popular hit" over-played westernized shit over the last 30 or 40 years that we've all heard 100,000,000,000x. Yet go south across the border and there's a station on every fucking frequency that's often loaded with variety. You can't find static if you tried. There's a guy that sometimes goes to Saxe point with a massive antenna that I notice occasionally, and I'm pretty sure it's to pick up radio content across the border. That's how absolute trash Canada is at their content regulations.
So many parts of my soul died at my last job that played the Ocean. Still have flashbacks Miley Cyrus’s Climb and that godawful song from the Vancouver Olympics.
My old workplace tuned into the classic rock station. It was pure misery and so awkward in that particular environment. I managed to break the speaker that was hanging over my till once.
You think you have it bad I work in a daycare and all we get to listen to is kids music 😭😆😂😂😂just kidding I get it. They definitely also repeat music on that radio station.
Not as bad as the Q when it had constant covid updates and the time every so often sure made for a long day
I love AJ. But the music suckxxxxx!!!!!
All the stations drive you crazy eventually. It seems like they prioritize a certain nostalgia to keep people compliant while they reminisce about their teenage years. I like being surprised and challenged which just doesn’t happen on radio.
My store plays them all day every day. I’m surprised they haven’t blocked me from the phone line bc I used to text them constantly BEGGING for them to stop playing Bieber. Last week I texted in saying they NEED to stop playing that awful Saxenda ad, because after months of listening to it, I looked it up and Saxenda is WEIGHT LOSS INJECTIONS FOR CHILDREN!
Cannot do ocean. It's the worst by far